I love using smiley’s, whether am messaging or scrapping or even thinking. I simple go :) or :| or :-p ok.. you got the idea. I find it simple to portray my emotions that way without the need of wasting my vital energy resources. It’s easier for the person in front to give a proper well-timed response too without it being awkward. But this isn’t a post about the what’s & how’s of emoticons. I’d rather discuss the topic at its origin-emotions themselves.

Having survived the hyper emotional teenage years and also suffering from the plight of being a woman (almost…well I look like one!) I can fairly well relate to emotions. Specially the ones that make me look for my hanky. No, I didn’t cry at movie theaters when Leonardo died in Titanic or SRK breathed his last in KHNH. I rather end up crying unexpectedly in situations like when I had seen a crippled person at the bus stop, begging in the scorching heat. Unlike beggars who are physically as able as us & probably having fatter b…